Charlottetown Common.

Second Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the right of persons claim- ing the common of Charlottetown, 24th Sept 1865-

Your Committee a inted to re rt upon the nature of the claiiiiplif persons hlildiiig the Common of this City, beg to lay before the Mayor and Common Council, a hlessa ceived from His Excellency Lieutenant over- nor Daly, through the olonial Secretary, conveyed by letter, dated 13th instant, as well as Minutes of Council on this important matter of the 26th Feby., 2d and 12th March, 1789; these documents are in reply to a note from the Chairman of your Committee, of 7th Se tember, addressed to the Hon. Mr. Coles. Co , Secre- tary, requesting he would be leased to inform

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your Committee. by what aut ority Lieutenant‘

Governor Fannin granted the ommon of Charlottetown! t a ears from the accom- gznying re lies, above alluded to, the Colonial

cretary eemed the enquiry of your Commit. tee of such importance, as to lay it before Ilis Excellency the Lieut. Governor, whom, your Committee understood the incumbents of the Common relied on for protection. The Colonial Secretary states, “ His Excellency directed me to acquaint you for the information of the City Authorities, that there is nothing on record among the Despatcbcs relative to the matter.”

Your Committee trust the following or lana- tions are sullicient to show the reason, w iy the expected re ly tom the Colonial Secretary was not advisab e to wait for,before banding in their first Report, as it appeared necessary imme- diate steps should be taken, cautioning unwary personsagainst purchasingland in the Common. as they were aware a certain portion thereof was then advertized to be sold at public auc- tion, to take place only about three days subsequent to banding in the information contained in our first Report.

Your Committee thought the facts there enumerated were suflieien tly strong to rove to the City or any other authorities, tiat the occupants of the Common have held possession thereof only by the suﬁei-ance of the Colonial governments; that the grants, under plea of which they claim the Common, are grants of

ture Lots in the Royalty, and that it is noto- rious, Lieut. Governor Fanning and his Coun- cil participated largly in the spoliation ; under these circumstances, it ceases to be a matter of wonder, the thing has been kept quiet and that the matter has been hushed u from the public so long; with the. proof of_tlie foregoing ‘cir-

,/Cumstances in their possession. they conceived

it became their duty to report the same to the Cor ration.

e beg to observe, it was from the evasive wording of the deceptive document, which the trespessers on the Common call a grant thereof, your Committee were induced to put the ques- tion thereon to the Colonial Secretary ; they thought it extraordinar if in the administra- tion of Lieut. Governor atterson, the authority of an act of Parliament was deemed necessary toenable the Executive to lease the Common for ten years, that afterward, durin Lieut. Governor Fannin ‘s time, the consent 0 the ﬁrst Estate of the calm alone was sufficient to enable him to dispose of it for ever, but it a pears the very ground work upon which t e grantor granted, and the Grantees ﬁx their claim are false, inasmuch as there appears to bone sanction from the Royal Power, to grant the Common of Charlottetown.

Your Committee recommend that this report and the‘ accompanying documents received from theC( lonial Secretary, be handed to John Inw- son , I squire, Recorder, and that he be requested to dc] ver in writing, his opinion to the council on th s important matter our Committee have been 1 eputed to gather in ormation on.

am. DAVIES, Chairman, Dozuan Mtlsuc, Aiiriiius C. Sins.

Colonial Secretar-y’s Oﬂice P. E. Island, 13th September, 1855.

in; Having submitted to the Lieutenant Governor your letter of the 7th instant, asking informa- tion, resgocting Grants, under which the Com- non of harlottetown is held, His Excellency directs me to acquaint you, for the informa- fun of the City Authorities, that nothing on record among the Des tches rdatiiig to that matter ;but [am to re or you to extracts from the Minutes of Council under dates of the 26 February, and2d and 12th lderch, 1787, on that sub'ect, which herewith I have the honorto enc ose. I am further to state, that, no grant appears on record for the Com- mon lots, Numbers 25 and 33. I have the,honor to be,

‘Tour obi. Servt. Gsosor Cous, Col. Secretary.

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Bsrusiiiii Dsvixs, Esquire,

Chairman of Committee of the City Council,

HASZARD’S GAZETTE, OCTOBER 3.

htracts from Hiniitee of Executive Council.

COUNCIL Ciniinsa, 26th Februar , 1789.

PiiassNr:—His Excellency the 'eutcnant Governor, Mr. Patterson, the Hon. Captain Burns, Mr. Townshend, Captain Gray, the Hon. Mr. Aplin.

The Governor having acquainted the Board that it had been frequentl represented to him by many of the princi inhabihnts of Char- lottetown and the Islan at large, that it would be attended with very beneﬁcial and salutary

ublio purposes, if the tract of ground in this yalty. heretofore appropriated as a Common, should be laid out into Pasture Lots, and Grants given of the same under certain limita- tions and restrictions,-it being new useless in its present waste and uncultivated state, and even considered as a nuisance and obstruction to the settlement of the 'l‘own.—And the Lieu- tenant Governor further observed, that it ap- eared to him highly important to the King's

His Majesty’s future Governor, Lieutenant

for the time being, that a certain portion of the said Common should be a prcpriated, and a Grant thereof made under tie Great Seal of the Colony. for the use and accommodation of His Majesty's Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Cliief' for the time being. there not having been any reservation of any Land heretofore made, for the erecting of a Govern- ment Ilouse, for the habitation and residence of His Majesty's Governor,—Hc informed the Board, that he should call for their 0 inion on the subject, at their next meeting, an request- ed that they would take the same into consider- ation.—The Lieutenant Governor further ro- osed, that Captain Gray, a Member of this ard, and acting Surveyor General of the Island, should, against the next meeting, re- are a plan of the said Common, laid out into llots and reservations as nearly as may be agreeable to what had hitherto been suggested in the Minutes of this day, that the same might be adopted, as the division to be made, if approved of, at the next meeting.

Cov.\'ci.i. CIIAIBER, 2d March 1789.

Passru-r 2-llis Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, The Hon. Colonel Desbrisay, &c , Mr. Patterson, Captain Burns, Mr. Townshend, Ca tain Gray, Mr. A in.

Xgreeablo to what the Lieutenant Governor suggested at the last meeting res ecting the appropriating that part of the Roya ty of Char- lottetown heretofore considered as a Common,

bervice, and the convenience and advantage of.

Governor or Commander in Chiefof this Island,

iisws in ms siieaisn inn.

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

On Saturday, the 8th of September, within a few days of the anniversary of the of the landing of the allied forces in the Crimes, and 316 days after the opening of the bcsieging batteries against Sebastopol, on the 17th of October, I854, a ﬁnal and victorious assault was made upon _the southern part of the town, Before night the French flag waved in triumph upon the Malakholf Tower, which had fallen before the indomitable courage and perseverance ofthe assailants, and Wllhln 3 few l‘°‘"'5 more the Russian garrison had evacuated the Karabelnaia suburb and the southern portion of the fortress, after blowing. up the magazines and principal works, setting fire to the town in many places, and then en- deavouring to withdraw by the bridge across the harbour from this terrific scene of devastation and defeat. So fell Sebastopol. The catastrophe surpasses in horrible inte- rest zill the preceding scenes of this gigan- tic contest. The columns of the allied iiriiiies, combined in a fourfold attack, struggled all day with eqihl valour, though with unequal success, against the principal points iniirked out for assault. The extreme right ofthe French attack was directed against the work called the Little Rediin, which was at first carried by the impetuosi- ty of our allies, though they were subse- quently driven back by the ﬁerce resistance ofthe Russians. The second and principal assault ofthe French army was against the Maliikhoff, which was carried by storm, and determined by its fall the fate, not only of the day, but of the siege. A third attack was made by the British forces on the Great Redan, and although we learn that the salient angle of this formidable work was at one moment carried and occu icd by our troops, it must be added, that t cy were subsequently driven out of it by the fire of the Russian batteries which com- inand it, and this check in some degree ‘diminishes the exullation which will be felt in this country at the triumphant termination ofthe siege. The French columns on the

into Pasture Lots, and a reservation to the Governor for the time being, he then requested the opinion of the Board. whether the-measures appeared to them cli ible or not, and whether an equal portion of t e Royalty heretofore re- served for Pasture Lets, be inning at the Three mile treeon the Princetoivn oad, and extending along said Road on both sides equally as near a s uare as may be for complement, should not be aid out and reserved as a ommon, instead of that part of the Royalty heretofore con- sidered as such.

The Board were unanimously of opinion, that the measure was eligible, and that the reserv- ing the like quantity of acres for a Common as above mentioned on the Princetcwn Road was both expedient and proper.—It was therefore unanimously ordere , that the same should immediately take eﬂect and be carried into ex- ecution accordingly.

The Surveyor General thcn reported to the Board, that he had made a rough plan of the Common, but that u ii measuring a small por- tion of the groun , he was apprehensive it mi ht not be correct, therefore he propose re erring the same to the next meeting of the Board, when the necessary measurements would be made, in order to make a correct lot of the same, which was agreed to according y.

Couiicii. Cnnisrii, 12th March, 1789.

Psream-:—His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, Colonel Desbrisay, the Hon. r. Patterson, Capjtain Burns, Mr. Townshend, Ca tain Gray, r. Aplin.

' he Surve r General then reported to the Board, that e had made a correct plan agree- able to what he had proposed at the last meet- ing, which he laid before the Board, and the Board having inspected the same, fully ap- roved thereof, and ordered it to be lie t as a

of the tract of land, of which it was the plot, and the divisions of the ground to be bounded accordingly.

It is positively asserted, says the Cologne Gazelle, that Lord Westmoreland will not again return to Vienna as ambassador, but Lady Westmoreland has just arrived there from Prague.

The New York Mirror learns, that Santa Anna has made overtures for the purchase of Mr. Ed- win Forrest’s mansion near Yonkers. and Mr. Forrest has named the price of the place as $190,000.

City of Charlottetown.

left also assailed, in the fourth place, the Central Buttery, but failed to establish ‘L ' in the work. We have no

‘defences ofsebastopol on that cvenful day

,1 stand side by side on one page, and no

their common renown.

asting evidence of the plan of the distri ution;

doubt, that every man who attacked the

fought with the same undaunted gallantry and the some determination to carry the place or to perish in the attempt; and, although the results ofthese several attacks were unequal, all were animated by the same spirit and contributed to the great result. The first prize of this glorious victory belongs of right to our allant allies the French, since the Malaliho Tower, the key ofthe main position, felt before the vigour of their assault; but, with that chi- valrous feeling which is the noblest bond of men who have fought and conquered toge- ther, the names of all those who carried the rugged defences of Sebastopol deserve to

invidious distinctions shall sully or lesson

The Russians on their side unquestiona- bly defended the place with the utmost determination, and on more than one point they had the advantage over the beeiegers. But it was the courage of desperation, for this effort was their last. No sooner were the outer works taken, which laid the town and the port at the mercy of the allied forces, than the men-of-war and steamers in the harbour were all set on fire, blown up, sunk, or destroyed, either by the fire of the allied batteries or by the orders of the Russian authorities. Such was the fate of the Russian Black Sea ﬂeet, on which the Imperial Government had expended incul- culable sums of money and incessant labour -—that fleet which two years ago threatened the very existence of the Turkish empire, but whose solitary naval achievement was the atrocious outrs o upon a far inferior force at Sinope. f the authors of that nefarious attack what remains? The cm- eror Nicholas sleeps in the vaults of St. aul, iiolon er conscious of the chastise- ment his wic ed ambifion has brought down on his empire and his heirs. who commanded and the crews who fou ht

The adniirals.

in the batteries of Sebastopol? The very ships {for which Russia contended at the Conferences of Vienna as essential to her dignity and power are torn plank from plank and scattered upon the waves. The dock- yard and arsenal were already, on Sunday, in possession of the allied troops; Pi-inc; Gortschakoff had, it seems, solicited an armistice, though we know not whether it was granted; but his tioops ware_hurrying away with the utmost precipitation; and, considerin the moral and physical results ofsuch a efeat upon the remnant of his army, it may be doubted whether the Rus- sian General can attempt to make any further stand on the north side of the har- our. ,

These great events terminate the siege of Sebastopol, properly so called, for the allied armies have achieved within the last three days the grand objects oftheir enter- prise. ’l'hey have wrested from the whole military power ofRussia a fortress which she had converted into ii place of extraordi- nary strength, and defended with innume- rable hosts ofher best troops. They have annihilated the naval power on which she relied to secure her supremacy in the Eu):- ine, and to establish her authority from the shores ofthe Caucasus to the mouths of the Danube. But above all, they have shown the sci-vile and credulous iintions of the East,tliat the Powers now paramount in the world are not those of fanaticism and bar- baric absolutism but those of liberty and civilization. In this struggle Sebastopol become at once the lest of strength and the reward of victory. To reduce it by force of arms was to overthrow that colossal fabric of Russian influence which a century and a-half of rapine and intrigue had called into being, until it overawed the surround- ing nations and threatened the independence ofEurope. \Vhile the expedition to the Crimea offered the incalculable advantage of circumscribing within a few square miles of the eneniy’s territory all the horrors of war, and of staking the strength of four empires on a single point, the result of our victory is as boundless a the globe. It tell, the world that the alliance of England and of France has stood the test of warfare by the sufferings ofthe camp and the perils of the ﬁeld. It assures mankind that their united policy can impose its will and exe- cute its resolutions, even though the timid stand aloof, and though men of bascr minds may abandon the cause of their country in her hour of need. We owe our success in no slight degree to the unwavering firmness with which the Emperor ofthe French has pursued this enterprise and adhered to the policy that dictated it. But we owe it no less to the clear and unanimous resolution ofthe people of England, whose mind was made up, that this thing was to be done. In the course ofthese events, which broke in so suddenly on our wonted avocations, we have had much to learn and much to bear. At times the tedium of suspended excitement became almost intolerable, and more than once the faintheartcd or the fiictious lost confidence in the result. Yet what is the fact? What is it we have done? A year has not yet elapsed, since the allied armies set foot in the Crimea. Within that time, they have won three pitched battles, and twice assaulted a fortress of extraordinary magnitude. They have en- compiissed the works of the enemy with trenches extending over more than 30 miles of ground; they have armed these trenches with the heaviest ordnance, and kept up so incessant a ﬁre,that not only an inculca- lable amount of projectiles has been con- sumed, but ﬁve or six siege trains have been worn - out. They have created at Ksmiesch, Eupstoria, and Yenikale three military stations which the Russians have not dared to asssil, and Bslsklava has become a opulous mart.‘ A railroad con- nects the arbour and the cam ; an electric chain binds the Crimea to ‘uropc, and conveys to us in a few hours the tidings of these triumphant successes. Upwards of $00,000 men encsmped within the lines of the Tchernaya have been conveyed thither and are daily fed, clothed, and housed from the resources of Western Europe. All this has been etfectedt in spite of the rigour of winter, the heat of summer, and the distance of3,000 miles from our shores, and within one little year from the saili of the e

on that occasion have most of them falcn

dilion, the leading objects o the campaign